24 FEBRUARY 2016

Ques. : 1 India and Armenia have signed an agreement for cooperation in the agriculture sector. The capital city of Armenia is
1) Yerevan
2) Caracas
3) Lusaka
4) Montevideo
5) Ashgabat
Answer:- 1) Yerevan

Ques. : 2 The payments bank promoted by who among the following appointed Shinjini Kumar, a former central banker, as the CEO recently subject to approval by the RBI?
1) Vodafone
2) Vijay Shekhar SharmaPaytm
3) Tech Mahindra
4) Aditya Birla Nuvo
5) Dilip Shantilal Shanghvi
Answer:- 2) Vijay Shekhar SharmaPaytm



Ques. : 3 Umberto Eco, who wrote best-selling novels including “The Name of the Rose,” was a(n) _________ author.
1) Russian
2) Spanish
3) US
4) British
5) Italian
Answer:- 5) Italian

Ques. : 4 As per the recent report on international arms transfers released by the global think-tank SIPRI, which country was the world’s largest arm importer in the 2011-15 timeline?
1) South Korea
2) India
3) Australia
4) China
5) Saudi Arabia
Answer:- 2) India

Ques. : 5 Katni, which will have India’s longest railway bridge (14 km in length), is situated in
1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Himachal Pradesh
Answer:- 4) Madhya Pradesh

Ques. : 6 The Public sector oil major ONGC has approved an investment of Rs 5,050 cr in which of the following northeastern states for drilling of wells and other facilities?
1) Assam
2) Manipur
3) Mizoram
4) Tripura
5) Meghalaya
Answer:- 4) Tripura

Ques. : 7 The Rs 5,000-cr stake sale by the govt in _________ recently saw very good response on offer for sale (OFS).
1) NTPC
2) Indian Oil
3) EIL
4) ONGC
5) Coal India
Answer:- 1) NTPC

Ques. : 8 The Parliament of __________ has become the first in world to run on solar power.
1) Bangladesh
2) Sri Lanka
3) Pakistan
4) Japan
5) Morocco
Answer:- 3) Pakistan

Ques. : 9 The Central Excise Day is observed every year on
1) 18 Feb
2) 20 Feb
3) 21 Feb
4) 23 Feb
5) 24 Feb
Answer:- 5) 24 Feb

Ques. : 10 Payments banks cannot
1) facilitate payments and remittances
2) sell mutual funds, insurance and pension products
3) disburse loans
4) accept demand/savings deposits up to Rs 1 lakh
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) disburse loans

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